Same. Even though ticks aren't an issue up North (yet), it's not worth the risk IMO. If I ever find one imbedded during a trip, I doubt that I'll wait for symptoms either. I'll start dosing during extraction.
Holy God Almighty, the stuff of nightmares!
We lived in a little place in the middle of a Central NY woodlot for a numbrr of years. Deer ticks were a big problem for me as well as my dogs resulting in numerous embedded ticks both on my carcass as well as the canines. My usual method of tick removal was forceps or fingers and oftentimes the entire tick wasn't removed. My (wiser) spouse convinced me to go to Urgent Care and I was treated by an off -beat doctor (my favorite kind) who shared that ticks corkscrew into the skin in a clockwise direction and, by turning the tick counter clockwise, it comes out intact. I thought at first that he was just putting me on! He gave me a couple of little plastic "tick twisters" and sent me on my way. That little trick and tick twisters tool were a godsend. A number of companies now make them and they are so inexpensive that I keep several sets in various locations and have gifted them to family and friends. They won't stop you or your pet from getting Lyme or some other nasty malady but logic suggests that the complete removal of the nasty bugger from a body is a good first step.
